Weirdest song ever?

[Luke Bannon]

Lately I've been listening to a lot of Devo songs. I'd say they, Whiter shade of pale and some of the songs off Pink Floyd's the wall are the weirdest I've heard. What do you think's the weirdest you've heard?

[peter johnson]

Shoot, "Rawlinson End" by the Bonzo Dog Band has to be in the top 10 . . .
"Brown Shoes Don't Make It" and "Cheepniz" by Frank Zappa . . .
"The Future's Not as Good As it Used to Be" & "Dinosaurs Are Getting Better" by The Tinklers . . .
"Big Yellow Streetsweeper" by Root Boy Slim . . .
I'm certain Vermin has some choice suggestions! . . .
peter johnson

[Cullen]

"Fish Heads" by Barnes and Barnes, I think, is the one to beat.  I might have heard weirder, but if so, they didn't stick.

A sample lyric:

"I took a fish head out to see a movie
didn't have to pay to get   it   in."

Very strange.
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[frannie]

the spam song.

[Babydoll]

Weird Al has some good ones.   "The Night Santa Went Crazy" and "Christmas at Ground Zero".  

We love his songs.

[peter johnson]

"Fishheads" is delightfully bizarre!
I'm thinking too:  "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun" & "'Cause I'm Blonde!", by Julie Brown.
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Sample lyrics from Zappa's "Cheepniz":
"Little Miss Muffett on a squat by me,
Turned around & said, "Can y'all see?
The little strings on the giant spider?
The zipper from the Black Lagoon?
The holes on the neck where the bubbles go through?
And the flaps on the side of the moon?"
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And:  "Here comes that Poodle Dog!!  He's big as a blimp with a rhinestone collar!!
We can't let it reproduce!
Whoah!  Somebody get out the pants!!"
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I also have a song by Marty Feldman on record called "The Old Bell".  Sample chorus:
"Rum Tiddle Tiddle Tiddle Tiddle
Scum on the water
Lint in your navel
And sand in your tea!"
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And there is, of course, "The Ying-Tong Song", by Peter Sellers, Harry Seacombe & Spike Milligan (The Goon Show), which was a perrenial hit in England & is revived along with "I'm Walking Backwards for Christmas" every Christmas in The British Empire.
"Ying tong ying tong ying tong ying tong
Ying tong Niddle i-po . . .
Can't you feel that crazy rythm,
Driving me insane?"  etc. etc.
peter johnson

[D]

How about the theme from the Bananna Splits?

[Andrew]

One time, when I was in HS and working at a supermarket, this one guy had a song.  It went like this:

(Instrumental)
"Look into my eyes.  What do you see?  Not me!"
(Instrumental)

Repeat that about 100 times.  That was the whole song and it sounded like Lars Ulrich's voice.

[Dano]

...although a nod goes to Junk Food Junkie.

[Susan]

A song that not only sticks in your head for LIFE, but I guess taught me a thing or two?

Instanbul by They Might be Giants

Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night

Every gal in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
So if you've a date in Constantinople
She'll be waiting in Istanbul

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way

So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works
That's nobody's business but the Turks

Istanbul (Istanbul)
Istanbul (Istanbul)

[Luke Bannon]

Yeah, I think Al's weirdest is Albequrque (did I spell that right?)

[Luke Bannon]

Oh yeah, I can't believe I forgot the goons!!!

[Rombles]

Anything by Wesley Willis

[WQ]

Early Pink Floyd is a good bet if you want something truly frigged up.  Anything by the Residents or Captain Beefheart would also do nicely.

[Flangepart]

Ah,yes....the demented side of Badmovies.org! Like it!
....Hope Dr. D plays the Feldman song.
....We're taling "Audio Rorchak test" here. Thats a song, like America's "Horse with no name" ie, a song where the meaning is so obscure...you listen to it over and over, to find the hidden message.
....Sure a honker when there is none!
...."American pie"....hate that stupid song. When McClean has to tell you what the song is about, he's doing psych therapy, not song writeing! The weird Al version was infinatly better! At least ya' knew what it was about!
...."Ain't we crazy.,ain't we crazy....this the way we pass the time away.......ain't we crazy, ain't we crazy...we're gonna sing this song all night today.."
....And before i set off on my first deer hunt next year, i'm going to sing Tom Lerer's Hunting song. Bwahahahaha!